Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
The purpose of this research is the sharing of mapping data on multiple units for environment mapping by the SLAM method and improvement of mapping accuracy. I assume robots are to work in the same room as the person. I thought that there were a lot of obstacles in the same room as persons, and it was an environment with a dynamic obstacles.
The robot needs to become small to work in narrow space. In addition, the robot needs to decide the information from the external sensor attached to the robot itself. working one room by one small robot when creating a map is inefficient. So, I thought about mapping and sharing with multiple robots. Because I thought that making of maps is possible efficiently by sharing data. I did experiments on environment mapping using a small sensor of a small mobile robot and examined its accuracy. In addition, as a result, we obtained accuracy of robot's self-position estimation and accuracy of a small distance measuring sensor used for environmental map construction experiment. Then we were able to know about these errors and remedial measures.
